Comments on: Shabazz Napier: ‘there are hungry nights that I go to bed and I’m starving’https://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2014/04/07/shabazz-napier-there-are-hungry-nights-that-i-go-to-bed-and-im-starving/
College basketball news, features, opinion and everything else.Thu, 24 May 2018 19:09:56 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: mcal24https://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2014/04/07/shabazz-napier-there-are-hungry-nights-that-i-go-to-bed-and-im-starving/comment-page-1/#comment-18834
Wed, 09 Apr 2014 00:25:14 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18834“Shabazz Napier, like all our scholarship athletes, is provided the maximum meal plan that is allowable under NCAA rules. UConn does not have a cafeteria devoted specifically to student-athletes, but they have access to the same cafeterias which are available to all our students,” Phil Chardis said in a statement.

UConn’s Student Athlete Handbook outlines that UConn’s athletes with a meal plan have access to the all-you-can-eat dining facilities that are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:13:45 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18731also the food they serve is the opposite of nutrition so it goes right through them. hunger is only quenched by mineral, amino acid, essential fatty acid, and vitamin intake.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:12:30 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18729you only further malnutrition by eating bread in the first place. there is something known as gluten proteins which is a vague term for the possible 23,000 potentially harmful proteins in wheat bread. The proteins go undigested and damage the part of the intestines that makes absorbing nutrients possible. Science, brother. Put your mind to the test.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 02:59:21 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18700These coaches KNOW that good nutrition is just as important as practice, lifting weights etc… These coaches make millions and they know they need to win to keep their positions.

They are NOT going to have their players going to bed “STARVING”.

They have athletic trainers, the latest in equipment, they are filmed while practicing so it may be broken down and studied to see where they may do better etc…

ALL of those things are meaningless when the players aren’t nourished right and believe me, the coaches, AD’s and the president’s of these universities KNOW the men on the football and basketball teams bring them millions and millions.

A body needs fuel, especially ones in peak condition.

WAY back in the 1980’s, Steve Alford wrote a book about what it was like playing for coach Bobby Knight at Indiana University (IU won the 1987 National Championship in Alford’s senior year).

In one spot in Alford’s book, he complained about having to eat spaghetti at like 8 to 8:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning.

Why was he eating it then? Coach Knight told them what they’d eat and when they’d eat it before games. Sometimes they played an early game on Sunday afternoons at like 12:30 p.m. and that necessitated the team getting together in a PRIVATE room to eat their pre-game meal.

Yes, this was a game day, not a day without a game. BUT it let’s you know that coach Knight and the school WAS aware of food and it’s importance to the athletes and how they would perform.

There meals were NOT an after thought and in the DECADES since then only more has been learned about proper nutrition and performance.

Millions on facilities and coaches and equipment would be for NOTHING if you let the athletes who bring in these millions starve…

The coaches KNOW what time the meals are served and if the coach does NOT want to change his practice time you know darn well the cafeteria for the team remains OPEN.

Heck, many universities are now building separate dorms for only the athletes to separate them from the common students. This still isn’t so widespread but it has been happening.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 02:39:17 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18698He’s about to get an NBA contract….somebody in his family or his friends give him money to eat please believe that. They aren’t stupid enough to not smell that money train coming.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 02:08:44 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18695student cafeteria do close, these students are busy as hell. late practice could make them miss a meal. They do no have a ton of time and most free meals have a time limit.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 02:00:44 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18693You can’t eat a college degree. Sad how some people think. Can’t get far enough past personal politics to see this is a disgusting way to treat your cash cows.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:50:51 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18691fantom21 – did you even read my comment all the way through? I ended it by saying they should be getting paid something. I never argued that they shouldn’t, so burn that strawman to the ground all you want. The point that you seemed to have missed was that being hungry is not equal to starving, by definition. Parse it or downplay his own quoted words however you wish. The bottom line is that if he was starving then he simply would not be able to perform on the court – he’d be lucky if he could make more than one or two trips up and down the floor and the mental faculties to run offenses and defenses just wouldn’t be there.

I repeat, my issue is not about money, it’s about syntax, context and physiology.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:47:26 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18690Yes, that’s exactly what it means. I’m quite sure UConn has provisions for athletes to be adequately fed, meaning fed better than most Americans. If he chooses to not take advantage of the trainer’s table etc., then UConn wasted their money and effort giving this kid an education.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:34:58 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18688JM WHITE ” I’m hungrier than you are so I win??” If the guy says he goes to bed starving then he’s hungry. Yeah he’s getting a paid education, one I’m sure since he’s not eating, he wouldn’t be able to afford. Doesn’t mean he shouldn’t get some money from the profits his school makes when selling his jersey.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:34:10 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18687I believe student athletes should get a stipend. But it should be an across the board allowance for all student athletes. No matter what sport, they should each get the same amount. And schools should be able to outbid each other. It should be a set amount. And it should be anymore than what a part time job would pay. If they earned about 500-600 a month, that should be enough.

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Tue, 08 Apr 2014 00:56:43 +0000http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=493017#comment-18686You’re going to college on a full ride scholarship. You have never known what it’s like to actually be starving, you spoiled brat. When you can’t get out of bed to make it to practice or a game because there aren’t enough available calories to move your muscles, when your stomach is distended from malnutrition and you’d do unspeakable things just for a slice of bread, then you’ll know what starving is.

Not that I think that college athletes shouldn’t get paid something, of course, but his hyperbole and blatant exaggeration is nauseating and peeves me to no end. Shut your pie hole, Napier; you’re not helping the cause.